Abbey Road Session & Everyone Involved

We have definitely decided to do the orchestra session at Abbey Road studios! To us, it’s something quite special – we’ve worked in pretty much every big studio in London (Townhouse, Olympic, Sphere, Air, Rak, Metropolis, The Barge, Konk) apart from Abbey Road! So it’s a big deal for us. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how iconic the studio is….

The Beatles recording at Abbey Road in 1967

LSO recording Star Wars at Abbey Road

Now we’re going to hire Abbey Road for the whole day – the The Chamber Orchestra of London recording the Frontier Elite 2 main and second themes will take about 3 hours, and then we’ll be there the rest of the day also to record all the drums we need on the album and also any other bits of live music that we can’t physically fit into the Uncle Art studio.

We’ve had a lot of really great musicians and producers want to be involved in this project, and we’re very happy to have them help out. As much as we can cover a lot of the instruments ourselves, there’s nothing like collaborating with other people to really come up with the freshest ideas and make you look and hear things a different way. Here’s some of the people involved so far:

– Dave came onboard as the producer on the album I made for Mercury Records – I was signed there as a singer songwriter when I was 17 and my dad and Dave co-produced the album with me on Pete Townsend’s Barge studio in Twickenham on the river. It was an amazing experience and Dave’s a proper dude – in fact he’s a bit like ‘The Dude’ in the Big Lebowski! He’s ace and we’re really excited to have him on board with this project also.

– Ben also was the engineer on my Mercury album and we like him so much we make him work with us loads! He’s mixed another album of mine and because he’s so good at recording drums we get him to engineer every drum session we do!

*Bob Scott – Drummer

– Bob is the MAN and could be working with the top players in the world full time, but instead he likes to run a florist shop in Darlington! Everybody we have worked with who then engineers / produces / witnesses Bob on a session / gig is blown away! To see Bob play – and we’ve seen him do 22 songs in one day in one take each straight off – it’s just something you can’t describe in words! It gives you pure joy to see such a master at work – I don’t rave about musicians like this lightly. Bob is the man

And then on top of these people who will be at Abbey Road working that day we do the session, we’re hoping to have the following people involved and come along too:

*Nick Paige – Such a SICK pianist he had to unlearn everything he’d learnt in order to find the real groove! – Stevie Wonder,

*Gav Slater – Helping me bring down the average age a bit! One of my gen awesome guitarist just finished up touring Wolf Gang – main support on Coldplay US tour and then headline world tour. Excellent afro!

*Lucy Lowe – sister and daughter, actress and voice actor turning to the other side of the lens to shoot the ‘making of’ documentary!

*Jez San – Of Starglider, Amiga, Atari, Nintendo fame will be coming down to the session and signing a bunch of the original gaming music bonus CDs!

Plus THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF LONDON!

Maybe it will look a bit more like this:

The Beatles and Friends

So come and join us!Check the Kickstarter for the rewards and find the Abbey Road reward – you can even bring a plus one!!

But only if you’re willing to recreate this too:

ABBEY ROAD ZEBRA CROSSING PHOTO

But in order to make this happen – we still need backers! Lots of backers! We’re into the last week! Don’t delay – we need your support! Believe in something great!! Believe in music. Believe in live musicians. Believe in Uncle Art!